Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Mini-Review
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was released on Xbox Live Arcade today. I took a few minutes on my lunch break to play it. I’d never previously played any of the Castlevania games so I thought I’d check it out. I figure, like most of the retro games that are released, the people who most want to play Castlevania: Symphony of the Night are the people who have fond memories of playing it previously. From what I understand Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was considered by many to be the best of the Castlevania games. Assuming that is true I still don’t think it stacks up against some of the other classic side scrollers. I think Double Dragon and Ninja Gaiden are both much better than this. The dashboard details specify it as being in HD, but the graphics don’t look to be updated from what I can see. They look to be the same as the origional, but I can’t say for sure because I never played the original. If these are the updated graphics it must have looked pretty bad when it was released. The gameplay seems to be pretty standard side scroller style. Maybe if I had played it before I night be excited about Castlevania: Symphony of the Night but I’m just not that impressed with another retro title being released for XBLA.
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